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Letter: Only Yoopers need vote on wolves

LSJ
12:04 a.m. EDT August 25, 2014

Grey wolves have been removed from the endangered species list, and debate continues in Michigan about whether they should be hunted to help control the population. The writer suggests only Upper Peninsula residents should be allowed to vote on wolf-related matters.
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Once again, the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are rejecting scientific management of our wildlife. I remember when maybe 30 or 40 years ago, some 10 or 12 wolves trapped in British Columbia were released in the Upper Peninsula. Now there are 600 to 700. Twenty-three were killed last hunting season, hardly significant.

Native Americans might love the wolves, not the farmers with livestock. However, a vote to allow hunting of wolves should be allowed only for Yoopers, because they have them and we don’t.